Re: fakeroot

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:26:13 +0100,
Alfred M Szmidt wrote:
> 
> I have no idea what people are smoking, I just tried
> `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us' for the hello package and it
> all worked dandy.  Log attached.
> 
> So unless someone comes up with a specific test case where fakeroot
> doesn't work (having to run a command that does all kinds of weird
> stuff does not a test make!), I think we can consider that fakeroot
> works.  Could someone close #11509 on Savannah?

How often did you try to build the hello package?  Did you also try
larger packages?

I remember that fakeroot was unreliable, and I see no relevant change
in the source since then.  The bug report says "Reproducibility:
Intermittent".  It's not new that building the hello package with
fakeroot sometimes can work (IIRC).

It's true that a better test case would be useful (even better a small
testcase which triggers the bug more often).  But until then the only
info we have is that fakeroot breaks under heavy load.  More debugging
is required.

Thanks,
Marcus